Word Up: Create Beautiful Word Clouds with Wordle
By Diana Cook
Wordle allows you to generate “Word Clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
The Wordle images you design are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. There are two ways to create a Word Cloud: Plug in text – anything from the Preamble to the US constitution to Kei$ha’s Tik Tok Lyrics or enter the URL of any blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed, like I did with DesignCrave.com and TheStyleLogue.com – and voila instant word art.
